Who is this? Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. […]
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Season 13 · 27 May 2025 Flagrante Delights39:38 Exotic Perfume The poet of perfumes par excellence: a scent brings forth an inner landscape made of sensations.47:55 Invitation to the Voyage Poem of the prospect of the voyage; the "over there" is the sweet native tongue; neoclassical order and romantic vibration.56:12 The Voyage "Bitter knowledge": the real voyage disappoints, the world is an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.57:55 Semper Eadem "Let my heart intoxicate itself with a lie": one savors an illusion while knowing it is one.1:26:20 The Perfume The past restored by a scent, the whole program of Proust's Recherche in one line.Talks · 29 May 2023 Dominique Pagani: From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment4:34 The Cracked Bell The self with the cracked soul emerges facing the Church and the army: it embodies our modernity.1:42:46 The Flowers of Evil He evoked like no one else the green paradise of childhood loves.1:47:31 The Voyage True travelers set out just to set out: desire has the form of clouds, an indeterminate object.2:05:29 The Painter of Modern Life Reactionary in politics, he defends artificialism against the vogue of naturalism.2:23:52 The Painter of Modern Life The good is the product of an art; adornment and make-up are a reformation of nature.Season 13 · 20 Sept 2024 Sickness, misfortune, evil9:30 The Flowers of Evil The first "Chant d'automne" brings together autumn, death, the fear of physical suffering, then a kind of appeasement.15:47 The Flowers of Evil A poet of the city, incapable of being moved by a plant, he shows mercy only to the sea in nature.17:41 The Flowers of Evil "L'Homme et la mer": the infinity shared by man and the sea; then finitude in time, "the grave awaits."30:32 His letter to Richard Wagner, pathetic in its humility, compares Wagner's music to the reverie of opium smokers. Season 12 · 22 Dec 2023 Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents15:03 The Flowers of Evil "La Beauté" illustrates the Parnassian ideal of a beauty of stone, motionless and determinate.24:18 The Flowers of Evil "Harmonie du soir" is a musical, evanescent beauty, made of sounds and scents.34:07 The Flowers of Evil He intuitively sees the relation between eros and scent; "Le Parfum" announces Proust.36:47 The Flowers of Evil The pantoum is a score and an incantation that stops the sun.Season 11 · 18 May 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard, or privileges for all48:42 The Voyage Final poem of Les Fleurs du mal: the true travelers leave in order to leave, the world is an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom, death is the true voyage.1:39:38 The Flowers of Evil He is not a herald of escapism: the collection shows that wine, artificial paradises and travel are vain escapes.1:43:42 Invitation to the Voyage This is his masterpiece, the project of the voyage and the tenderest relation to woman.1:48:25 A dandy in poverty, he refuses miserabilism: beauty must be worked at and the artist must give the best. 1:51:05 "You gave me your mud and I turned it into gold": true wealth. Season 7 · 27 Mar 2020 #1 - Harnessed to Confinitude10:10 Inaugurates the movement that will be called symbolism. 14:44 Beauty Passed through the Parnassian phase: marmoreal, cold poetry that wants to stop time in a plastic instant.18:36 Correspondences Association of sounds, scents and colors, savored with eyes closed, the opposite of the visual world.25:09 Invitation to the Voyage Ivory tower and luxurious interiors; the sweet native tongue designates the lost paradise, homeland of the soul.27:08 Harmony of Evening The poem synthesizes the two tendencies and, through its verbal magic, fixes the setting sun.Season 11 · 9 Jul 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard - The clash of worlds?9:32 Draft Letter to Jules Janin Responds angrily to Janin, who reproaches poets for their melancholy; a rejection of a world without negativity.11:13 The Voice The poem shows the choice between the world as a cake of enjoyment and the voice calling beyond the known.49:37 The Voice Recalled: the yes to the voice of the voyage joins the divine praise of negativity in Faust.59:39 The Voyage True travelers leave in order to leave; their desires take the shape of clouds and the human mind does not know their name.Season 11 · 14 Oct 2022 Clouscard and the problem of Socrates47:22 Autumn Song Winter and night are connoted negatively there.49:01 Harmony of Evening A succession of sensations without narrative, modern; the tender heart hates nothingness and turns back to the past.52:17 Evening Twilight Darkness becomes an inner festival: contradiction with the preceding poems.1:26:12 To the Reader "Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother": contradictory apostrophe on boredom.Season 11 · 28 Sept 2022 And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire1:05:37 Autumn Song Autumn, the twilight of the year, announces the winter he dreads.1:08:17 Harmony of Evening An impressionist poem of sensations, analyzed through the alternation of masculine and feminine syllables.1:14:56 Harmony of Evening Twilight as hesitation; metrical perfection freezes the course of the sun.Series · 10 Mar 2021 Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music50:23 New Notes on Edgar Poe Peak of his critical work; he develops there a theory of the beautiful of neo-Platonic inspiration.51:44 Correspondences Poetry has a relation to the sacred; it is the symbols that observe man with familiar looks.53:47 New Notes on Edgar Poe Heresy of teaching: poetry must serve neither truth, nor morality, nor passion, too natural; the beautiful is always strange.Season 8 · 11 Jun 2020 #10 • Return to the logics of the subject14:19 New Notes on Edgar Poe The heresy of teaching: poetry has no purpose but itself; the instinct for beauty makes the earth a correspondence of the sky.18:35 The Flowers of Evil Collection dedicated to Théophile Gautier.1:09:19 The Former Life The "painful secret" of the last line betrays an unwitting homage to collective history.1:24:00 Distinguishes the Baudelaire influenced by de Maistre from the one in solidarity with the black slave of America. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.2 From Ulysses to Daedalus1:19:50 He recovers the romantic subject and deepens it with the unconscious, in a Racinian form; sensations rather than feelings. 1:24:26 The Former Life The poem plunges beyond individual consciousness; spleen persists in it.1:26:53 Sed Non Satiata Perfumes and sensations come to distract melancholy.1:29:45 He cultivates his neurosis without sinking into psychosis. Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus18:04 Worshipped Joseph de Maistre. 27:22 Hyper-romantic in content, hyper-classical in form: a synthesis of Racinian verse and new content. 48:43 Paris Spleen "Get Drunk" and "The Stranger": desire without determination, the marvelous clouds.50:22 The Flowers of Evil "The Voyage": the true travelers leave for the sake of leaving, toward the unknown, with desires shaped like clouds.Season 2 · 10 Mar 2016 #2.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?0:30 The Cracked Bell The poem expresses modernity: the individual is separated there from the traditional community.5:07 The Cracked Bell The bell and the old soldier figure the church and the army, exclusive communities.6:13 He inaugurates the accursed poets, but wrongly, since Nerval precedes him. 11:42 Pursued for immorality by the community of decent people. 1:40:20 The Cracked Bell The whole analysis of communitarianism comes from this poem.Season 2 · 18 Feb 2016 #2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?44:51 The Cracked Bell The bell and the old soldier figure the Church and the army, a homogeneous community from which the poet is excluded.53:01 A ruined pleasure-seeker, inventor of dandyism, who lived at the Hôtel Pimodan. 54:23 Harmony of Evening A series of sensations without a plot, of rigorous meter, evocative sorcery.1:01:56 "Lovely spring has lost its scent." 1:25:43 Harmony of Evening The sun that freezes arrests time: a dusk without night.Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016 #2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?5:08 The Flowers of Evil Chosen for a poetic text that links language and the thought of the historical present.12:06 The Cracked Bell Reading and analysis of the sonnet, which moves from romantic voluptuousness to the nightmare of a wounded man whose voice does not carry.28:57 To the Reader "Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother" sums up his ambivalence toward the other; he speaks of us, not of his own psychology.33:49 Our condition: "an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom." 1:25:27 Parisian Scenes He belongs to the early days of industrial society, where the individual asserts himself and experiences new anxieties; he faces trial for obscenity.Season 11 · 3 Sept 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: Desiring what? Through whom??49:58 Paris Spleen In "Anywhere out of the world," the soul answers only to the desire to be anywhere out of the world.51:36 Invitation to the Voyage Poem of the desire for travel, dreamed from the harbor.54:43 Exotic Perfume The poetry of the harbor full of sails and masts.1:01:21 The Voyage The last lines: into the depths of the unknown to find something new.Series · 5 Aug 2023 Aragon "The Paris Peasant Sings" - Readings on the Spot11:08 The Swan One of the most beautiful poems about Paris: the shape of a city changes faster than a mortal's heart.22:09 Meditation One of the last flashes of his genius, which serves as a counterpoint to Aragon; it reveals his aristocratic and reactionary side ("the vile multitude").Series · 20 May 2022 Dominique Pagani - Who is hiding beneath the surfaces? Aesthetics and politics40:10 The Flowers of Evil The section "Le Vin" extends romantic evasion; later come the artificial paradises.48:50 From him onward, poetry is no longer only in verse. 1:02:06 Autumn Song "The sun shining on the sea": example of the sun's reflection on the sea.1:07:26 Invitation to the Voyage The setting suns over the canals describe the apotheosis that occurs on the surface of the water.Series · 6 Jun 2021 #3 Nomad or sedentary? - The case of Nerval3:10 The Swan Evokes the vanished alley and the old Paris transformed.18:26 The Swan The swan escaped onto the pavement of the Louvre becomes a metaphor for exile.30:50 Correspondences One same something, beyond the senses, links the oboe, the green of meadows, and children's flesh.Season 9.1 · 19 Nov 2020 #5 Benefits and harms of amnesia...35:01 The Former Life The former life dreamed is not a lost paradise: the painful secret already makes one languish there.1:02:26 To the Reader The first poem of Les Fleurs du mal names boredom, a delicate monster that would swallow the world.Season 7 · 26 Apr 2020 #6 • Harnessed to confinitude13:08 The Sick Muse Example of the modern dread of lost inspiration.47:29 The Flowers of Evil He inaugurates the mystique of the lost paradise, from which exile and escapes derive; reading of La vie antérieure.1:15:41 The Flowers of Evil Puts as epigraph Agrippa d'Aubigné, as if anticipating his trial.1:43:08 His "Anywhere out of the world," borrowed from Poe: a total elsewhere. Season 7 · 4 Apr 2020 #3 • Harnessed to confinitude16:02 Avowed counter-revolutionary: only the poet, the priest, and the soldier count; disciple of Joseph de Maistre. 21:32 Beauty A mineral, neo-classical poem that denies movement, counterpoint to Harmonie du soir.26:11 The Cracked Bell The sonnet moves from the gentle melancholy of the quatrains to the nightmare of the tercets: the whole century and modernity are contained in it.1:04:36 His planned letter to Jules Janin: "You are happy, sir. I pity you." 1:11:23 Semper Eadem "Let my heart intoxicate itself with a lie": the mask falls on the modern need to lie to oneself.Season 7 · 30 Mar 2020 #2 - Harnessed to Confinitude12:07 The theme of escape, or escapism, becomes exasperated in him. 34:25 His poems seek to escape from the present and from knowledge. 51:55 His romanticism combines two tendencies, one of them reactionary. 56:40 The Flowers of Evil He prefers, to his Parnassian vein, poems where perfect form unites with the trembling of scent; reading of "Le Parfum."1:02:27 He learned from Gautier to discipline the verse; his miracle is to unite Racinian form with vibration. Series · 23 Mar 2020 Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops0:24 In a draft of an angry letter, he calls Nerval "always lucid" and dead with a discretion resembling contempt. 11:22 His revolution of modernity dismisses both realists and romantics alike. 56:53 The Flowers of Evil He achieves the synthesis of romantic sensibility and Parnassian formal rigor.Season 4 · 12 Nov 2017 #4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)7:52 He opens, after romanticism, a new chapter of modern poetics. 10:39 His draft letter to Janin defends Nerval, a writer of admirable honesty and always lucid. 1:16:39 Autumn Song Autumn is linked here to death; Harmonie du soir shows the heart gathering the remnants of a luminous past.1:41:29 The Swan The old memory that sounds its horn in the forest connects with the veiled voice in Nerval.Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?1:46 The Flowers of Evil The Cracked Bell poses the problem of modernity: the decoupling of the individual and society.1:02:49 The Flowers of Evil The "large chest of drawers" in Spleen illustrates the modern detail.1:40:06 New Notes on Edgar Poe He denounces the heresy of teaching: the poem does all the more good the more it aims at beauty; sensation replaces feeling.Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus16:46 The Flowers of Evil His poetics is Platonic; in "Correspondances," the symbols watch man with familiar looks.19:19 New Notes on Edgar Poe The instinct for beauty leads to conceiving the earth as a correspondence of heaven.Series · 2 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 5/544:15 Autumn Song The sun shining on the sea, an almost non-figurative painting of surface.1:21:08 Modern poetry of sensations. 1:57:56 Correspondences What circulates between perfume, oboe and meadows is not sensible but is reached only through the sensibles.Series · 1 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 1/524:38 The Flowers of Evil Wine, artificial paradises, and eros, already present in Novalis.39:38 "Bitter is the knowledge one draws from travel." 2:14:35 After the Parnasse, he returns to Romantic sensibility enriched with formal perfection. Season 14 · 13 Apr 2026 Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier20:40 Correspondences The first quatrain illustrates that the object knows more about man than man knows himself: the symbols observe man with familiar looks.Season 13 · 17 Dec 2024 The essence of evil - Innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!15:43 The Cracked Bell The tercets and the death rattle of the wounded man under a pile of corpses evoke for him the children under the rubble of Gaza.1:11:16 Autumn Song "Nothing means more to me than the sun shining on the sea," example of natural beauty.1:17:01 The Cracked Bell Conclusion on the children who die without moving, in immense effort.Season 13 · 13 Oct 2024 The eternal return… of the death camps?3:25 The Flowers of Evil The Cracked Bell is the first literary text on which he based a philosophical analysis.34:53 The Cracked Bell The sonnet moves from the blessed bell to the cracked soul whose voice fails to make itself heard. This is not about a neurotic: he is speaking of all of us.43:39 The weakened voice of Kafka's emperor resembles that of the cracked soul. Season 12 · 4 Jan 2024 I am not who you think I am - The elusive identity23:21 To a Creole Lady A line quoted to oppose the banks of the Loire to the infinity of the desert.25:20 Bohemians Traveling The prophetic tribe with burning eyes.59:25 Harmony of Evening The tender heart that gathers up the remains of the past turns its back on the future.1:12:27 The Clock The second that whispers "remember": the anguish of passing time.Season 12 · 12 Dec 2023 "I is another", or contradictory identity3:24 Two of his poems, contradictory with one another, illustrate the two moments of the Hegelian text; Baudelaire always remains clear. 31:11 The Irremediable Quoted: "A being departed from the azure...".1:07:41 Each of the two poems expresses one of the contradictory moments of the will. Season 11 · 23 Nov 2022 THE APORIAS OF ANTHROPOLOGY55:15 The Cracked Bell The sonnet moves from romantic melancholy to the nightmare of a voice that can no longer make itself heard.58:21 Mists and Rains Verse quoted on the drowsy seasons.Series · 20 Jul 2022 WAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique5:35 Correspondences The verse of the perfumes shows a correspondence between all the senses, carried by something invisible and inaudible, in a relation of analogy.Season 10 · 10 Feb 2022 #9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side?1:27:29 Autumn Song "The sun radiant on the sea": liquid gold, an example of the surface.1:28:11 Meditation The dying sun beneath an arch, in Paris.2:23:25 Harmony of Evening "The violin trembles like an afflicted heart."Season 10 · 23 Dec 2021 10#7 "Post-modern" eco-petty-Nazism - Plato's Gorgias1:45:40 The Flowers of Evil "Le Voyage": desire for an indeterminate newness, the unhappy consciousness of the age.Season 10 · 6 Oct 2021 10#2 Dialectics of identity and difference1:04:32 Correspondences The "dark and profound unity" serves to illustrate the bond between art and the state.Series · 4 Oct 2021 #4 Nomad and sedentary - The case of Nerval25:38 The Flowers of Evil The collection ends with Le Voyage: death is the great journey, plunging into the unknown to find something new.Season 9.2 · 30 Jun 2021 9 #24 "Ruled like music paper!" • Nerval • Baudelaire • Part 252:39 Correspondences "Nature is a temple of living pillars."55:24 The Swan A poem of exile tempered by the forest where the spirit is exiled; Baudelaire, more reactionary than Hugo, pays tribute to the exile.Series · 23 May 2021 From the lost voice to the path of modernity • From modal music to tonal music • D Pagani20:02 The Cracked Bell The sonnet moves from the communal bell to the poet's cracked soul, a lost voice turned into the death-rattle of a wounded man left forgotten: the beginning of modern solitude.Series · 18 Apr 2021 #2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams2:37 The Flowers of Evil Reactionary of the generation of disenchantment, his verses on action as "sister of the dream" sum up the problem.30:45 Cited for his line on the love of the desert and the sea. Season 9.2 · 14 Apr 2021 9 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 21:48:56 In him, the mal du siècle worsens into spleen, with an almost physical, neurotic dimension, close to modern man. 1:52:00 His prose poems illustrate great poetry in prose. Series · 7 Apr 2021 #1 Mignon, or the song of silence40:54 Bohemians Traveling "The prophetic tribe with burning eyes."52:22 Letter to Richard Wagner He recognizes Wagner's genius and describes his music through non-figurative pictorial images, a painting that tends toward music.Series · 25 Mar 2021 Musicosophy 17. Interpretation26:13 The Swan The end of the poem, with the sound of the horn and the feminine rhyme, makes the wind instrument resonate.Series · 7 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more1:46:29 The Flowers of Evil The green paradise is, for him, a lost past; he revealed Wagner in a letter with an overwhelming postscript.Season 9.2 · 29 Jan 2021 9 #13 How can sciences of history be real?1:10:58 The Flowers of Evil Les Fleurs du mal is published in 1857; his letter to Wagner is presented as remarkable musical criticism.Series · 28 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner50:14 The Flowers of Evil "O Death, old captain": escapism; the poison that comforts is the opposite of Nietzsche.1:13:43 His planned letter to Jules Janin on the superiority of the German orchestra. Season 9.1 · 24 Dec 2020 #10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...23:46 Harmony of Evening The tender heart that hates the vast black void turns its back on the future and gathers every trace of the past.1:17:10 Harmony of Evening This heart no longer expects anything from the future: taking refuge in the past can be deadly.Series · 11 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music47:11 Judged by Rimbaud to be the first seer, but of mean form. 1:18:15 Harmony of Evening Reactionary, he turns his back on the void and freezes the sun in an eternal dusk, a compromise in the face of death.Season 9.1 · 10 Dec 2020 #8 Benefits and harms of amnesia...1:33:44 The Flowers of Evil His poem on perfume expresses "in the present the restored past."Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers24:30 The Former Life Nostalgia for a lost paradise, where a painful secret already caused languishing: the subject retains its unsatisfied infinitude.Season 9.1 · 23 Oct 2020 #2 Benefits and harms of amnesia...16:57 Autumn Song The poem turns autumn into a departure; the falling wood recalls that one used to heat with wood.36:49 "You gave me your mud and I turned it into gold": this is sublimation. 1:04:47 Don Juan in Hell Poem cited for Charon and the crossing of death.Season 8 · 30 Jul 2020 #16 • Return to the logics of the subject22:48 Rilke read his French posterity. 1:05:02 Beacons The last stanza, engraved at the Luxembourg, sees in art the testimony of our dignity.Season 8 · 21 Jun 2020 #11 • Return to the logics of the subject32:25 The Flowers of Evil The "large chest of drawers" in Spleen, a Balzacian detail.1:27:17 Translator of Edgar Poe. 1:32:43 Letter to Richard Wagner He describes what he feels listening to Wagner through a painting with no figuration whatsoever.Season 6 · 29 Mar 2020 #6.6 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism25:29 "The azure of the immense round sky." 1:03:08 Get Drunk One must always be drunk: a mania for escape, also in "Anywhere out of the World."Season 6 · 3 Dec 2019 #6.2 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism25:13 Correspondences The sonnet, manifesto of poetic modernity, shows symbols watching man with familiar looks: a relation to the symbolic being.Talks · 29 Sept 2019 The religion of Money10:08 In his hymn to Paris, "You gave me your mud and I made gold of it" unites the lowest and the highest. 18:02 A cursed poet less discreet than Nerval. Season 5.2 · 29 Jul 2019 #5.9 Kafka: An Imperial Message7:13 Spleen His spleen aggravates romantic melancholy with an almost hallucinatory physical dimension.8:46 The Cracked Bell Sonnet opposing the happy bell to the cracked soul whose voice remains a prisoner: an impossible communication.10:38 Translator of Poe, excellent but sometimes inexact, unlike Mallarmé. Season 5.2 · 26 May 2019 #5.7 Nature or Landscape?25:45 Autumn Song The sun radiating on the sea serves to bring out the notion of surface.57:43 My Heart Laid Bare The devil's ruse is to make people believe he does not exist, like capitalism.1:39:25 He saw that one does not make good poems with generous ideas. Season 5.2 · 26 Mar 2019 #5.5 Nature or Landscape?8:27 Paris Spleen The preface to his prose poems dreams of a prose espousing the convolutions of the soul.11:42 With him the interior landscape opens up. 1:11:02 The Flowers of Evil A poet of the city and of order, incapable of being moved by vegetation, he dreams of a universe of metal, marble and water.1:19:11 The theme of luxury in Rimbaud recalls "luxe, calme et volupté." Talks · 20 Jul 2018 Education: can the Beautiful be learned?40:47 Harmony of Evening A poet of decadence and decline, of a civilization drowning in its own voluptuousness.Season 4 · 14 Jun 2018 #4.9 Angélique (by Nerval)1:15:30 The Flowers of Evil "The Voyage": "O Death, old captain" associates death with the metaphor of the voyage.Season 4 · 16 May 2018 #4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)1:30:19 The Cracked Bell In fourteen lines, from romantic voluptuousness to nightmare: the poem of modernity.Talks · 31 Mar 2018 Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 231:06 This Baudelaire, a disciple of Maistre, reactionary, reproaches America for the slavery of Blacks and the martyrdom of Indians. Season 4 · 15 Mar 2018 #4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)27:02 The poem on Delacroix, a lake of blood shaded by fir trees. 39:55 Tribute to Nerval: a discretion that resembled contempt. 54:56 The Swan Poem of exile; with him the landscape becomes an interior landscape, as in L'Invitation au voyage.Season 4 · 15 Jan 2018 #4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)16:15 The Albatross The wounded white bird has a great past behind it.1:14:36 A Voyage to Cythera Instead of the temple of Venus, he sees a gibbet on the island: one sets out for love, one arrives at death; poem inspired by Nerval.Season 4 · 11 Dec 2017 #4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)2:04 The Cracked Bell First literary text introduced into the seminar.27:13 Obsession "Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals."1:38:39 The Flowers of Evil The poems are divided between Jeanne Duval and the adoration of the Présidente, never touched.Season 4 · 18 Oct 2017 #4.1 Angélique (by Nerval)23:29 By 1851, he has not yet come. 26:35 He inaugurates the avant-gardes; Rimbaud names him first among the seers. 35:12 He called Musset a "languorous undertaker." Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?51:09 Among those who recognized Poe. 1:04:18 Get Drunk "One must always be drunk," on wine, poetry or virtue.1:44:39 The Cracked Bell First text commented, which redirected the workshop toward flagrant instances.Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.6 From Ulysses to Daedalus17:03 Correspondences He inaugurates modern poetry under the aegis of a kind of Platonism: it is the symbols that observe man.Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017 #2.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?27:14 The prose poems. 1:29:40 The "heresy of teaching": a poem is not beautiful because it speaks of beautiful things. 1:54:05 Correspondences Symbols observe man with familiar looks: the object knows more about me than I do.Talks · 18 Jun 2016 At the bistro with Pagani: part 143:24 His prose poems mark the erasure of boundaries between genres. 1:05:13 Author of the finest tribute to Nerval; modern literature is made to begin with him, forgetting that Nerval preceded him. Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016 #2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?1:46:45 The Voice Two voices dispute the cradle; he follows the voice of dream: "the wise have none as beautiful as the mad."Series · 1 Feb 2016 Marx on the Beach 2/21:17:27 'You are an autumn sky': the symbol, without 'like', keeps its mystery; the beautiful is always strange. Season 1 · 11 Dec 2015 #1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?1:10:17 Correspondences Symbols look at man: the symbol knows the mystery of man, the inverse of Oedipus and the Sphinx.Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?10:01 The Cracked Bell Spleen worsens the mal du siècle; the sonnet transmutes melancholy into nightmare in fourteen lines.Talks · 26 Apr 2015 The Music of History27:51 beginning of modern poetry according to the textbooks 40:59 New Notes on Edgar Poe great critic; the heresy of teaching: the work must not aim at a moral goalSeries · 6 Jul 2026 From Plato to Proust - Readings on the Spot54:55 Example of a slip: a sentence attributed to Baudelaire finished by Rousseau. Season 14 · 28 Feb 2026 Their "Europe" means war.4:44 The Flowers of Evil He quotes from memory: the wise do not have dreams as beautiful as fools do.Talks · 2 Dec 2024 "Napoleon, or the reasons of cunning", with Dominique Pagani8:10 The Flowers of Evil With "Tableaux parisiens," modernity is the city; romanticism is past.Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024 Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self0:18 The Cracked Bell Text from The Flowers of Evil studied in the previous session.14:49 The Cracked Bell The bell that is never cracked figures those who remain within measure.52:04 Excerpt used in an earlier video on the failure of communication. Season 13 · 2 Sept 2024 Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle1:38:50 The Irremediable 'An Idea, a Form, a Being departed from the azure': cited to illustrate value.Season 12 · 24 Jun 2024 For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse?1:49:46 Convicted over poems with erotic overtones. Season 12 · 4 Jun 2024 The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present1:25:22 The cult of Wagner begins with him. Season 12 · 30 May 2024 From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject44:46 The Flowers of Evil Placed a passage from Agrippa d'Aubigné as an epigraph.Season 12 · 21 Apr 2024 Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?1:23:07 He characterized Wagner's leitmotifs through heraldry. 1:37:48 The Flowers of Evil Vice has not science for its mother.Season 12 · 18 Feb 2024 Secularism, the truth of religion?47:10 A case of the paroxysm of the crisis of the mal du siècle. 1:08:16 He has a mastery of ceremony. Series · 29 Sept 2023 Kleist "On the Marionette Theatre" - Pagani - Readings on the Spot3:48 German Romantics are more akin to the literature stemming from Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud than to French Romantics. Season 11 · 29 Jun 2023 Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative54:06 The Swan "Paris changes, but nothing in my melancholy has moved."Season 11 · 18 Mar 2023 A SPRINGTIME OF THE PEOPLES?2:05:23 Correspondence or analogy. Series · 31 Jan 2023 Mallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn - Readings on the Spot0:49 Paris Spleen Opened the movement of poetic prose.Season 11 · 12 Dec 2022 Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval3:15 Cited among the avant-gardes won over by Wagner. 33:11 Wagner is his contemporary: an era quivering with eroticism. Series · 3 Aug 2022 SCHUBERT - THE DIVINE CAPTIVES • Pagani Parle Musique3:00 Proust recalls that he called the sound of the trumpet "delicious." Season 10 · 23 Jun 2022 #15 Nietzsche: Philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions1:36:29 Invitation to the Voyage "Order and beauty, luxury, calm and voluptuousness" echoes the music Nietzsche dreamed of.Season 10 · 10 Jun 2022 #14 Caves of Yesterday and Today - From Plato to modernity43:02 'The beautiful is always strange': poetry surprises. Season 10 · 7 Apr 2022 #12 From Kafka to Proust, the dialectical passage from the intermezzo to the perpetuated edge1:35:17 Addressing Paris: "you gave me your mud and I made gold from it." 2:16:54 The world falls asleep in a warm light. Series · 5 Mar 2022 Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature. Heidegger/Descartes45:11 The Irremediable "An Idea, a Form, a Being… fallen into a muddy Styx."Series · 6 Feb 2022 The feminism of the privileged, puritanical censorship of femininity - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner11:51 Rather reactionary on social matters, he said "the woman Sand." Season 10 · 24 Nov 2021 10#5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last...18:51 The Flowers of Evil A work written by its own author, unlike Hegel's Aesthetics.38:24 To a Malabar Woman The "shady retreats" evoke femininity confined within the house.Season 9.2 · 9 Jun 2021 9 #23 "Ruled like music paper!" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss1:31:06 Announced as a quotation to come. Season 9.2 · 28 Apr 2021 9 #20 From SIGNAL to SIGN • Einstein53:07 Mallarmé devoted a tomb to him. 57:48 He paraphrases one of his poems: "it is a hard trade to be a beautiful woman." Series · 25 Mar 2021 Musicosophy 18. What is musical in music41:04 Bohemians Traveling "The prophetic tribe with burning eyes," for Mignon's dark complexion.Series · 9 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music1:07:56 The Flowers of Evil Put as epigraph an excerpt from d'Aubigné.1:30:08 The Flowers of Evil "O Death, old captain, it is time, let us weigh anchor": the last voyage.Series · 2 Feb 2021 Musicosophy 13. Mozart restored41:37 Spleen Spleen laden with anguish to the point of hallucination, an extension of the mal du siècle.Series · 15 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata14:58 None of the great poets called themselves symbolist. 55:06 The smell of incense is not a feeling; beauty that sits enthroned like a sphinx. Season 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021 9 #12 How can sciences of history be real?21:50 Correspondences Quoted for "like long echoes that from afar merge together."27:09 "Stupidity with the brow of a bull," quoted from a very fine poem. Series · 11 Jan 2021 Musicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music33:38 Elevation Inspired by the prelude to Lohengrin.Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music1:44:47 Origin of the tradition that condemns Hugo. Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 4. Sound ghettos38:56 Ill Luck Line quoted without naming its author: "To lift so heavy a weight, Sisyphus, your courage would be needed."Series · 3 Dec 2020 Musicosophy 3. What is called modern music?1:14:28 Called Musset "the languorous undertaker." Season 8 · 2 Jul 2020 #12 • Return to the logics of the subject7:26 Harmony of Evening An accomplished poem, which he had compared to Hugo's Stella.10:05 Paris Spleen The small prose poems pursue the idea of a poetic prose.Season 7 · 18 Apr 2020 #5 • Harnessed to confinitude16:37 The Cracked Bell, starting point of the sessions on the modern subject. 18:58 Starting point of what critics have called symbolism, a word he does not use. 58:47 Correspondences Quoted: "like long echoes that from afar merge together."Season 7 · 11 Apr 2020 #4 • Harnessed to confinitude1:01:19 Harmonie du soir and La Cloche fêlée speak of decline; his spleen aggravates the mal du siècle. Season 6 · 19 Feb 2020 #6.5 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism53:43 With the symbolists, goes further than Rousseau in the pleasure of sadness. Season 6 · 23 Oct 2019 #6.1 • The Logic of the Subject • season 6 / 2019-2026:49 Evoked in Aragon's poem. Series · 10 Sept 2019 D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat • Part Two26:25 The Flowers of Evil The expression "to pirouette in the dark" comes from "L'Irréparable."Talks · 3 Aug 2019 Money, work, freedom36:13 Expressing abominable things is not approving of them. 52:10 "You gave me your mud and I turned it into gold." Season 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019 #5.8 Nature or Landscape?59:39 Autumn Song "Nothing is worth more to me than the sun shining on the sea."Season 5.2 · 2 May 2019 #5.6 Nature or Landscape?20:18 Invitation to the Voyage The shining furniture, polished by the years.Season 5.2 · 25 Jan 2019 #5.4 Introduction / Nature or Landscape?1:11:55 Incapable of being moved by plants, he preferred the urban landscape, metal and marble. Season 5.1 · 31 Dec 2018 #5.3 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought1:39:56 "The beautiful is always strange." Season 5.1 · 24 Oct 2018 #5.1 The philosopher's Odyssey: Revolutionary thought1:04:24 The Flowers of Evil Spleen and ideal: the division of the soul in jagged lines.Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017 #3.1 From Ulysses to Daedalus37:30 Neoclassical and Parnassian in his youth, then hyper-romantic. 44:40 Says that Wagnerian motifs come to "emblazon" the musical discourse. Talks · 19 Jun 2016 At the bistro with Pagani: part 213:49 Said that all elegiac poets are scoundrels. 32:50 His theory of correspondences is already found in Tieck and Wackenroder. Series · 2 Feb 2016 Hegel on the Beach 4/52:28:26 The Sick Muse Illustrates creative impotence, a modern theme.Series · 29 Jan 2016 What is to be done? 1/317:38 He is wrongly believed to be the first to have revealed Wagner, whereas Nerval preceded him. Series · 29 Jan 2016 What is to be done? 2/38:09 The prose that follows the convolutions of the soul. Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015 #1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?1:06:10 A poet cursed by the modern city. Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015 #1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?9:07 The beautiful is always strange, but not everything strange is beautiful. Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015 #1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?1:05:32 Starting point of the poetic revolution: to suggest rather than describe. Series · 1 Jan 2015 R for Reverie7:01 Cited among the great advances placed in the second state. 
Season 13 · 27 May 2025Flagrante Delights
